
This is about us serving people who didn’t have options in quality graduate accounting education.”

“We are about opening new doors to talent that we were never able to tap into. “This is expansion mode for us,” she says. The next year there were 95, and Wittmayer says they intend to keep growing.

In its inaugural year, 12 online students enrolled in Kenan-Flagler’s MAC program.

Amy Wittmayer, managing director of the program, says the school hoped the move would bring the program a more diverse set of students, from recent grads to working professionals to current and former members of the military. The change began in 2015, when Kenan-Flagler began offering the MAC online. The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School launched its Master of Accounting program 30 years ago, and has had a steady enrollment of about 130 students each year - until this year, when enrollment jumped by nearly 100.
